In this paper, I relate the concepts of health and healing phenomena of D.W. Winnicott to his proposition of therapeutic consultations, a clinical service approach that activates the creativity of both psychoanalyst and patient. The assumption is that human beings possess capabilities that emerge even facing the extremely critical situations that are a part of human existence. In these consultations, patients commonly place therapists in a special place in their imagination, allowing for a subjective relationship that differs from the transference that takes place within a traditional analytical process.
Key words:
Therapeutic consultation; healing phenomena; health; creativity